• Norah - She/They
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    6 months ago

    Sideloading an app on a phone doesn’t have the potential to wipe everything else off the phone. It’s bad advice to call dual booting that because you might cause someone to go into it without understanding the risks involved. In fact, the best facsimile, which doesn’t even require knowing how to get into the boot menu, would be to run a Virtual Machine instead. That way there actually isn’t any risk of erasing Windows. It’s also really simple these days, here’s some guides from ubuntu and fedora:

    https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop-on-a-virtual-machine-using-virtualbox

    https://fedoramagazine.org/install-fedora-virtualbox-guest/

    Or if you don’t want to go through the hassle of installing Linux inside the VM yourself, you can download pre-built VMs for most major distros from here:

    https://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/

    Added benefit that you can try multiple different distros without even rebooting your computer.

    • @HATEFISH@midwest.social
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      16 months ago

      Sure, I’ll do that. But you’ve lost 99% of average people when you mention “virtual machine”.

      Also at least for mint which I was directly talking about you actually boot via live USB first and have to install from an icon on the desktop so there really is no risk for erasing windows until your well into making decisions. Which again you have to choose to erase windows.

      • Norah - She/They
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        16 months ago

        Yeah, so don’t say Virtual Machine. Say “you can sideload linux on windows to test it”.